Attention obsessive paperback collectors: cool book covers will save us all. So says the New York Times and so say I. But since most of us aren’t ridiculous millionaires who can hire artisans to custom make sheepskin book covers for us, I hunt down cheap, awesome vintage paperbacks. Bat shit brilliant science fiction author Philip […]
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Tonight’s Smalldoggies Reading
This month’s installment of the Smalldoggies Reading Series (2nd Thursday of every month at Cafe Magnolia on 32nd off Hawthorne) starts at 8:00 tonight. There’s always a good beer special and a better crowd so show up early for a seat and pick up a special chapbook featuring the night’s performers, who are: Pauls Toutonghi, […]
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Publisher’s Lunch Part 2 – Philip Iosca
The Publisher’s Lunch series continues in February, this time turning to a local writer, Philip Iosca. The Publication Studio will be providing free copies of his collection, Ballad of the Sad Young Men, to everyone attending. Ballad of the Sad Young Men, true to it’s title, chronicles the sadness of yearnings and sexuality. The poems […]
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The Book Of Freaks Preview From Future Tense
Local publisher Future Tense is releasing The Book of Freaks by Jamie Iredell next month. The summary promises a faux encyclopedia of the bizarre and the mundane, exploring the freakishness of people in their various incarnations, “From circus freaks, to nationalities, to you and everyone you’ve ever met.” My favorite part is the ladies in […]
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Microcosm Wants Your Kindle! (UPDATED)
Microcosm Publishing is taking the e-reader wars to the next level with their new promotion. You bring in your unwanted Kindle (they only want Kindles) and you get to take home it’s value in books, zines, and other printed matter from their zine store. Ha! I bet the folks at Wired never thought this image […]
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F/M/K Just Got A Whole Lot More Intellectual
The last few months I’ve been getting a kick out of a regular feature at The Hairpin where writers/bloggers Julie Klausner and Natasha Vargas-Cooper tackle the classic game Fuck/Marry/Kill. For beginners, this is a game in which you choose three people, usually celebrities, and decide which one you would fuck, which one you would marry, […]
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Maximus Marathon Poetry Reading Begins Today
To commemorate the hundredth birthday of modernist poet Charles Olson, The Switch is staging a weekend long event in which local poets will read the entirety of The Maximus Poems. What are The Maximus Poems? Let’s check Wikipedia… An exploration of American history in the broadest sense, Maximus is also an epic of place, Massachusetts […]
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Publication Studio Event This Sunday
Those busy folks at the Publication Studio are in the midst of hosting three book events in three cities with a Portland homecoming scheduled for this Sunday at their base on SW Ankeny at 6:30 p.m. The book, A Classroom Reader, is a collection of essays based on talks from a gallery exhibit last July. […]
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Kitchen Cybernetics
Have you heard of the Singularity, popularized by Ray Kurzweil, in which nanotechnology bonds with our biology and we all become transcendant super-beings who never die? It’s a dubious possibility, though Kurzweil theory has inspired a whole school specifically dedicated to making his dream a reality. But it’s just not soon enough for some people, […]
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The Year In Cats
This video compilation over at Gawker (shiver) presents, in ninety wonderful seconds, the best cat memes of 2010, including a list of all the links.
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Does The Daily Show Make A Difference?
Today The New York Times compares Jon Stewart to Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite for his role in drawing attention to the Republican filibuster of a bill providing health care to 9/11 responders. The Daily Show has been reporting on this for weeks , culminating in an episode-long interview with first responders before breaking […]
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Walt Kelly’s A Visit From St. Nicholas
Thanks Roger Ebert for posting the entirety of Walt Kelly’s very weird interpretation of this Christmas Poem. Is it too early to call 2010 the Year of Roger Ebert? Via Biblioklept.